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Adobe Updates Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic

March 16, 2021
Adobe has announced an update to both Lightroom Classic (to version 10.2) and Lightroom (to version 4.2 on desktop) with a few new changes and performance enhancements. Both updates are available to download from Creative Cloud immediately. Adobe Lightroom Classic Starting with Lightroom Classic, Adobe has stated that in addition to performance improvements (faster load times), tethered view for…
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Leica is Increasing Prices Across its Entire Product Line

March 16, 2021
Leica has quietly announced that it will be raising the prices across its entire product line by varying degrees, averaging around 2-5% on most items but getting as high as nearly 10% in the case of some of its cameras. According to a report, while most products are seeing…
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Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Shift Lens: Perfect for Architecture Photography?

March 16, 2021
Photographer and content creator Manny recently tried out the Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Shift Lens which, while clearly very niche, he argues can be used very effectively for architecture photography in this 12-minute video. The Laowa 15mm f/4.5 was announced late last year and was called the widest shift lens for full-frame cameras. It is available for several different mounts in both mirrorless and…
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Making the Case for Prime Lenses in Landscape Photography

March 16, 2021
One of the unavoidable truths about being an artistic creator is that you’ll undoubtedly and inevitably hit a rut. As is the case with landscape photography, that wall hit me after I realized that all of my photos started to look the same, even when the locations varied.
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Ep. 341: Big Cameras. Big, Big Cameras – and more

March 16, 2021
 Episode 341 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 –  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Photographic artist, educator, writer, and speaker, Erin…
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Nikon Z7 II review

March 16, 2021
Introduction Product shots: Dan Bracaglia 89% Overall score Jump to conclusion Late last year, Nikon announced the Z7 II, the second iteration of its (for now) range topping high-resolution full-frame mirrorless camera. As the name implies, this is a…
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How a Fresnel Lens Works, Explained with a Simple Blackboard Model

March 15, 2021
If you’ve heard of Fresnel lenses in photography before but have no idea what they are or how they work, here’s a fantastic short primer. In this 3.5-minute video, physicist David G. Willey (AKA the Mad Scientist) explains the science behind the lens style using a simple and easy-to-understand model on a blackboard. Willey is a former physics instructor at the University of Pittsburgh at…
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